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the obama white house. >> but do you think a nominee gingrich could also beat president obama? >> could he? sure. >> you don't sound as convincing, though. >> i answered your question. >> but you think he could? >> sure. >> i want to ask you something that i don't think has come up, and it's would you consider being on the romney ticket as the vp. i want to ask you a different way. you said you did not feel you were ready to be president right now, and would you be ready to be vice president? would you have to be ready to be vice president -- >> everybody has misunderstood what i meant about being ready for president. i meant being ready to leave the job i had and being ready to run for the president of the united states and all that entails, and i didn't feel ready to do it and i think you have should be committed to do that. i want to be governor new jersey. i absolutely believe that come november 2012, i will be governor of new jersey, and not in any other officers. and the fact is if governor romney picked up the phone to call me and talk about this, i love my country and p
the obama white house. >> but do you think a nominee gingrich could also beat president obama? >> could he? sure. >> you don't sound as convincing, though. >> i answered your question. >> but you think he could? >> sure. >> i want to ask you something that i don't think has come up, and it's would you consider being on the romney ticket as the vp. i want to ask you a different way. you said you did not feel you were ready to be president right now, and...
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, i think governor romney would be the worst news for the obama white house. >> do you think a candidate, a nominee gingrich could also beat president obama? >> could he, sure. >> you don't sound as convincing. >> i answered your question. >> you think he could? >> sure. >> i want to ask you something that i don't think has come up so far, whether you would consider being on the romney ticket as a vp. you've answered this a bunch of different times. i want to ask it a slightly different way. you have said you didn't feel you were ready to be president right now. would you be ready to be voopt? would you have to be ready to be president if you were going to accept a spot on the ticket? >> everybody misunderstood what i said about being ready for president. i meant being ready to leave the job i had and being ready to run for president of the united states with all that entails. i didn't want to do it, didn't feel ready to do it. i think you have to be absolutely committed and ready to do that. as to the vice presidency, i want to be governor of new jersey. i absolutely believe come novemb
, i think governor romney would be the worst news for the obama white house. >> do you think a candidate, a nominee gingrich could also beat president obama? >> could he, sure. >> you don't sound as convincing. >> i answered your question. >> you think he could? >> sure. >> i want to ask you something that i don't think has come up so far, whether you would consider being on the romney ticket as a vp. you've answered this a bunch of different times. i...
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. >> there's a political dimension to this for obama and the white house. they wanted to keep petraeus. petraeus is very important, credible. as we know from history, sue yau directors can cause presidents great grief. the bay of pigs. wmd not in iraq and so forth. also, they can do very important things for presidents like the bin laden raid, which was a covert cia -- >> and i know from spending time with him in his current role how much he loved this job, was engaged by this job, and had tremendous band width in terms of his counterterror operations. so there will be a lot of questions about who replaces him and -- >> he was transforming the agency. he had a rocky start. but he was seeing a global visi vision, the economic future, looking at asia, looking at china. he was going well beyond the counterterror operations. really transform that. >> he did the honorable thing. he had to resign given this. i don't think there was any question. >> more on this when we discuss it with our roundtable, andrea mitchell, bob woodward, thank you both very much. >>> i
. >> there's a political dimension to this for obama and the white house. they wanted to keep petraeus. petraeus is very important, credible. as we know from history, sue yau directors can cause presidents great grief. the bay of pigs. wmd not in iraq and so forth. also, they can do very important things for presidents like the bin laden raid, which was a covert cia -- >> and i know from spending time with him in his current role how much he loved this job, was engaged by this job,...
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. >> if we want to get rid of obama care, we're going to have to replace president obama. >> but here's the question -- is repeal realistic? i'll ask the house's top democrat, nancy pelosi, in an exclusive interview. then, what does the law mean to you? the debate over the value now and in the future. with us, fore chair of the democratic party, dr. heoward dean, and the republican governor of louisiana, mentioned as a romney running mate, bobby jindal. dean and jindal square off. finally, we'll get to the politics. our roundtable weighs in on the fights ahead. can the president sell health care to a still-skeptical public? can romney lead the charge against health care after passing an individual mandate himself in massachusetts? and the legacy of chief justice roberts. with us, our white house correspondent and political director chuck todd, the new co-he is of the "today" show and chief legal correspondent savannah guthrie, editor of "the national review," rich lowry, and columnist for "the washington post" eugene robinson. >>> good morning. you can imagine health care is all anyone'
. >> if we want to get rid of obama care, we're going to have to replace president obama. >> but here's the question -- is repeal realistic? i'll ask the house's top democrat, nancy pelosi, in an exclusive interview. then, what does the law mean to you? the debate over the value now and in the future. with us, fore chair of the democratic party, dr. heoward dean, and the republican governor of louisiana, mentioned as a romney running mate, bobby jindal. dean and jindal square off....
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so obama and the white house were willing to go quite far, in a sense this is the starting point, i guess you will put it up on your website after the budget wonks parse through it. >> that is the point. and congressman, i guess the question bob and i talked about, there's a lot of spending pain in there, democrats have to go back to folks and say, hey this is the pain you have to suffer. are you prepared to do that? >> there's no question. these are tough issues why there has been hammering and wrangling. i believe a democratic congress, especially in the house and in the senate that are willing to make those tough choices, that know in the long term, they have to reform entitlements, and we have to make sure there is revenue raising part of it and four years now the republicans unwilling to do that i think election will get them in gear. and they'll do it. >> talk about this election, chuck todd, bleary eyed but still tough here on the sunday after the election. how is it the president won? >> demographics, pure and simple. people want to talk about san day and all of these other things
so obama and the white house were willing to go quite far, in a sense this is the starting point, i guess you will put it up on your website after the budget wonks parse through it. >> that is the point. and congressman, i guess the question bob and i talked about, there's a lot of spending pain in there, democrats have to go back to folks and say, hey this is the pain you have to suffer. are you prepared to do that? >> there's no question. these are tough issues why there has been...
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remember the summer of 2011, when president obama was perceived, and they believed at the white house, that he kept making concession after concession and didn't get anywhere. they are definitely not doing that now. >> well, the election had to inform how they came out so strongly basically said, this is the deal. and legislators are saying we're not giving on medicare or the spending cuts either. >> what people are forgetting is there is already a deal. this thing we call the fiscal cliff is a law that republicans voted for and that the president steered them to vote for. and strategically, he was victorious in that. the theory of this thing was, no one wants it to happen. no one wants anything in this bill to happen. the rates to go up or all the spending cuts. but it turns out that the democrats and the president like more of what would happen on january 1 than republicans. >> do you know who agrees with you? rick santorum. i spoke to him on press pass and this is what he said. and newt gingrich, you respond after you hear this. >> the greatest leverage he has is that he put togeth
remember the summer of 2011, when president obama was perceived, and they believed at the white house, that he kept making concession after concession and didn't get anywhere. they are definitely not doing that now. >> well, the election had to inform how they came out so strongly basically said, this is the deal. and legislators are saying we're not giving on medicare or the spending cuts either. >> what people are forgetting is there is already a deal. this thing we call the...
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. >> the obama campaign is winning the campaign. when you look at the air war in the swing states, they're attempting to define him as two things, one, that his business experience doesn't translate into economic growth. that was part of their first month-long ad campaign. and second that business experience might be a negative. they're pounding him on this. it's not just on bain. it's on -- they were using the fact he used similar language right before he game governor of massachusetts and using the massachusetts record. the fact is the political ad campaign, the ad war right now, the obama campaign is winning. >> next item is battleground polls that we go inside the states, which is so telling. i'll go through them quickly. new hampshire, a key state for lom kn romney. they're tied at this point. michigan, obama with the edge, the president with a four-point edge there. north carolina, also so important, the president has just a two-point edge there. rich lowry, all these under 50% which tells you how tight the race is. >> still v
. >> the obama campaign is winning the campaign. when you look at the air war in the swing states, they're attempting to define him as two things, one, that his business experience doesn't translate into economic growth. that was part of their first month-long ad campaign. and second that business experience might be a negative. they're pounding him on this. it's not just on bain. it's on -- they were using the fact he used similar language right before he game governor of massachusetts...
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the 2008 election, and hs just giving up on the house and senate. you sound about the same. you have given up on the prospe of rea cpromise this year? i think i said clearly today that i think that we need to work together. there are things we need to get done this year to cntinue the momentum the economy has. does e economy have engh momentum of course not. but for 22 mont we have built on private sector jobs and we ha so much more that needs to be done, so i look a the glass as being half fl and not half empty, and i hope the republicans have lened that they cannot be led over the cliff by thextremism -- >> what does the president say to the congress and country that breaks the log jam? what can he say that get repuicans ofthe sidelines, as you would put it, to start negotiating with democrats? >> the president,o his credit, for 2 1/2 years, bent over backrds to devel bipartisansh. he had people down at the white hse. republicans down at the white house. he came to capitol hill. nobody can eerriticize the president for rching out to republicans, b
the 2008 election, and hs just giving up on the house and senate. you sound about the same. you have given up on the prospe of rea cpromise this year? i think i said clearly today that i think that we need to work together. there are things we need to get done this year to cntinue the momentum the economy has. does e economy have engh momentum of course not. but for 22 mont we have built on private sector jobs and we ha so much more that needs to be done, so i look a the glass as being half fl...
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. >>> this morning on "meet the press," where does the race for the white house stand just one week after the paul ryan pick? >> on the trail, the and the tax debate. team obama still wants more from mitt romney. >> i did go back and look at my taxets and over the past ten years, i never paid more than 13%. >> with us for a debate this morning, two influential voices in their party. chair the republican governor'ses so yaks bob mcdon afld virginia and the chair of the governor's association martin owe mall live maryland. plus we will hear from new york city mayor, rudy giuliani. then the campaign's tone. how nasty it's become. >> so mr. president, take your campaign of anger, and hate and get back it chicago and let us get back it rebuilding and reuniting america. >> our political roundtable on the road ahead. democratic mayor of atlanta, tea party back gop from texas ted cruz. chief white house koerpt chuck todd and columnist peggy noonian from the washington journal and ej dpsh dionne from the washington post. >> meet the press with david gregory. >> we are a little more than a week awa
. >>> this morning on "meet the press," where does the race for the white house stand just one week after the paul ryan pick? >> on the trail, the and the tax debate. team obama still wants more from mitt romney. >> i did go back and look at my taxets and over the past ten years, i never paid more than 13%. >> with us for a debate this morning, two influential voices in their party. chair the republican governor'ses so yaks bob mcdon afld virginia and the...
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obama has given up on compromise, not giving up on moderation under clinton who ran obama's transition team after the 2008 election, and he's just giving up on the house and senate. i'm listening to you this morning and you sound about the same. have you given up on the prospect of real compromise this year? >> i think i said clearly today that i think that we need to work together. there are things we need to get done this year to continue the momentum the economy has. does the economy have enough momentum? of course not. but for 22 months we have built on private sector jobs and we have so much more that needs to be done, so i look at the glass as being half full and not half empty, and i hope the republicans have learned that they cannot be led over the cliff by the extremism -- >> so you say in the union address. what does the president say to the congress and country that breaks the log jam? what can he say that gets republicans off the sidelines, as you would put it, to start negotiating with democrats? >> the president, to his credit, for 2 1/2 years, bent over backwards to deve
obama has given up on compromise, not giving up on moderation under clinton who ran obama's transition team after the 2008 election, and he's just giving up on the house and senate. i'm listening to you this morning and you sound about the same. have you given up on the prospect of real compromise this year? >> i think i said clearly today that i think that we need to work together. there are things we need to get done this year to continue the momentum the economy has. does the economy...
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the sunday "new york times" and the lead story is obama strategy for '12 election, attack congress. white house officials i talked to say that was sensationalized, that that was overwritten, yes the president is going to talk about contrasts with congress but he certainly hopes and will work for cooperation. but we're beginning to see the outlines already in this contest of what the general election will look like, the general election campaign, no matter who the nominee is. now here was then-senator obama, when he won in iowa, back in 2008, this is what he said in part. >> the time has come for a president who will be honest about the choices and the challenges we face. who will listen to you, and learn from you, even when we disagree. who won't just tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to know. >> and mitt romney, on the campaign trail this week, is actually shadowing where president obama, then-senator obama, campaigned in iowa, and he's got a very different message. this is it in part. >> four years ago this week the barack obama visited davenport and he gave a spee
the sunday "new york times" and the lead story is obama strategy for '12 election, attack congress. white house officials i talked to say that was sensationalized, that that was overwritten, yes the president is going to talk about contrasts with congress but he certainly hopes and will work for cooperation. but we're beginning to see the outlines already in this contest of what the general election will look like, the general election campaign, no matter who the nominee is. now here...
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just as rick indicated, return to states a whole series of programs, food stamps, housing vouchers, medicaid and set how much goes to them. and finally with regard to entitlement, i do not want to change medicare and social security for current retirees. but for younger people coming up, they have to recognize that in the future, higher income people will receive less payments than the premium support program. >> governor huntsman, who knows more about the american economy? you, in answer to that question, you seemed to be a little bit uncomfortable with a moment earlier in this debate cycle when everybody said they would reject even a 10 to 1 ratio of cuts to new taxes. >> it was a silly format. i mean, it was an important question, and they asked us to raise our hands. i mean for heaven's sake, we didn't get a chance to talk about it. i put a tax reform proposal on the table, endorsed by "the wall street journal," that goes farther than anybody else's on this stage. it calls for what absolutely needs to be done and everybody knows about it. we are so chuck full of loop holes and deductions
just as rick indicated, return to states a whole series of programs, food stamps, housing vouchers, medicaid and set how much goes to them. and finally with regard to entitlement, i do not want to change medicare and social security for current retirees. but for younger people coming up, they have to recognize that in the future, higher income people will receive less payments than the premium support program. >> governor huntsman, who knows more about the american economy? you, in answer...